A team of several dozen appointed on the initiative of the Ministry of Development is working on the Act on Crafts and Dual Education. Its goal is to develop a method of vocational education that would be adapted to the modern market and would allow it to respond to the needs of a rapidly changing world. Industry schools are to be linked, inter alia, with special economic zones and new directions: ecology, electromobility or Industry 4.0.

"The industry school of the future is directly related to the new law that the Ministry of Development is preparing, concerning craftsmen and craftsmen. The ministry is working to prepare such a package of professions of the future related to ecology, electromobility, and Industry 4.0 under the new law on crafts and the dual system of training in crafts. Obviously, this is followed by industry professions related to specific professions and regions throughout Poland," Olga Semeniuk, the deputy minister of development, said.

According to the Polish Craft Association, there are currently 38 non-public craft vocational schools in Poland, educating nearly 6,000 students, and over 1,100 work teachers. The first non-public schools, established on the initiative of the craft organization, started to operate in 1993. They combine apprenticeships with a craftsman, organized on the basis of an employment contract, with theoretical education at school and the role of the guild as an intermediary organization.

"The challenge on the labor market related to the professions of the future is to fit into various European components. We are talking about a very important energy strategy or Industry 4.0," Olga Semeniuk added.

(Newseria)